Re: Restricting a users access
> Can someone please tell me how to restrict a users
> access to one directory only?
>
> The situation is this, we have a /home/projects dir (also
> a Samba and netatalk share)that all users currently
> have access to either thru win98 or G4 macs.
>
> The problem I have to solve is creating a directory for a
> new user in the projects folder called
> '/home/projects/intern' which he is locked into and cannot
> access in any way the rest of the /home/projects/ folder.
> This folder 'intern' would remain writeable to all including
> the new user.
>
> Since he will be connecting thru a mac and win box its
> not as easy as just locking him into that dir as his home
> dir as netatalk and samba dont really share the same
> characteristics.
You can define what dirs are readable, writeable, etc by
individual users. If /home/projects is "public", anyone can
read/write to it, depending on your umask settings.
Look at Samba's "write list" option here
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#WRITELIST
Regards
Hall
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